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#187: Marvel Super Heroes Draft Deck Skeletons with the Skeleton Crew
Jun 21, 2026
Unknown duration
#186: Journal Club (Mulligan and opening hand data)
Jun 15, 2026
Unknown duration
#185: Reimagining limited deck clustering
Jun 9, 2026
1h 48m 12s
#184: Right cards for right draft decks, SOS edition
May 12, 2026
2h 15m 17s
#183: Early 17Lands draft data for Secrets of Strixhaven
Apr 26, 2026
1h 58m 32s
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| 6/21/26 | #187: Marvel Super Heroes Draft Deck Skeletons with the Skeleton Crew | Few days before the new set releases on Arena - why not see our vision of draft format before starting to draft? Our eccentric, deck-centric set review is back. We look at format stats, design vision and then instead of grading individual cards we propose 40 card decks skeletons to showcase what we see in each color pair. This time we have Tresiohttps://x.com/Tresio/and Rosemary Teahttps://x.com/TheRosemaryTea/And we are in for an interesting discussion. MSH looks like a jazz improvisation set rather thn paint-by-numbers drafting prevalent in the last few sets and I am all in for it. It is also a polar opposite of SOS - a creature and permanent centered design after instant and sorcery themed SOS so expect to re-evaluate your evaluations. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode on YT: Episode #187You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | #186: Journal Club (Mulligan and opening hand data) | This week we are trying something new. A journal club. And the reason for it is very simple - there are not that many Magic-related scientific papers out there. But last week Jess Williams and Zev Goldhaber-Gordon released a very interesting paper on opening hands, land percentages, mulliganing and mana flood. I invited both authors to talk about their findings and what implications they have for Magic players. We will be talking about BO3 mulligan rates, links between player win rate and mulligan rate, causes for any trends in that. We will also look at a neat method of estimating optimal land composition, and impact of both mana screw and flood. Jess and Zev are both PhD students with impressive scientific pedigree, but also Magic players with notable successes under their belts, so they combine the rigour needed for those sorts of analyses with understanding of the game. You can follow them here:Jess Williams: https://x.com/mtg_jessZev Goldhaber-Gordon: https://bsky.app/profile/zergog.bsky.socialAnd - most importantly find the paper here in its simplified version (the link to the full paper can be found in there too):https://medium.com/@mtg_jess/opening-hand-evaluation-in-limited-executive-summary-8360a819e2e6Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode on YT: Episode #186You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | #185: Reimagining limited deck clustering✨ | deck clusteringlimited data analysis+3 | — | DiscordPatreon | — | deck clusteringlimited formats+3 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 1h 48m 12s | |
| 5/12/26 | #184: Right cards for right draft decks, SOS edition✨ | card win ratesdraft decks+4 | — | DiscordPatreon | UKStrixhaven Skycoach+2 | card powerwin rates+5 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 2h 15m 17s | |
| 4/26/26 | #183: Early 17Lands draft data for Secrets of Strixhaven✨ | draft dataLimited format+3 | — | 17LandsSecrets of Strixhaven | — | 17LandsSecrets of Strixhaven+4 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 1h 58m 32s | |
| 4/21/26 | #182: Draft deck skeletons for Secrets of Strixhaven with the Skeleton Crew✨ | deck buildingMagic: The Gathering+3 | Zach KaganTresio | Skeleton CrewDiscord+2 | UK | deck skeletonsSecrets of Strixhaven+3 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 3h 00m 04s | |
| 4/1/26 | #181: Winning against your worst opponent, your own brain✨ | cognitive theoryMagic the Gathering+3 | — | DiscordPatreon | UK | cognitive trapsanalytical thinking+3 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 1h 15m 29s | |
| 3/23/26 | #180: The secret sauce of Pizza decks in TMT draft✨ | Pizza decksTMT draft+3 | — | Pizza decksTMT draft | — | Pizza decksTMT draft+3 | — | 1h 26m 42s | |
| 3/16/26 | #179: Right cards for the right decks, TMT Edition✨ | card evaluationdeck building+3 | — | Armaggon, Future SharkDiscord+1 | UK | card strategydeck optimization+3 | BulkBoxSIERKO10 | 2h 11m 48s | |
| 3/8/26 | #178: Early draft data for TMT✨ | TMTMagic: The Gathering+5 | — | — | — | TMTMagic: The Gathering+5 | mtgazone.comSIERKO10 | 2h 03m 48s | |
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| 3/3/26 | #177: Draft deck skeletons for TMT with the Skeleton Crew✨ | deck buildingMagic: The Gathering+4 | Jason YeSpringbok7 | — | — | deck skeletonsTMT+4 | mtgazone.comSIERKO10 | 1h 41m 56s | |
| 2/11/26 | #176: Right Cards for Right Decks, ECL Edition✨ | ECL draftsKithkin+3 | — | — | — | ECLKithkin+3 | mtgazone.comSIERKO10 | 2h 36m 05s | |
| 1/25/26 | #175: Early 17Lands Draft Data for Lorwyn Eclipsed✨ | draft dataMagic: The Gathering+3 | — | Lorwyn Eclipsed | — | draftMagic: The Gathering+4 | mtgazone.comSIERKO10 | 2h 00m 00s | |
| 1/20/26 | #174: Lorwyn Eclipsed Draft skeletons with the Skeleton Crew✨ | deck buildingMagic: The Gathering+3 | Sam PrattAdam DDVAP+1 | Rough Drafts podcast | — | Lorwyn Eclipseddraft skeletons+5 | mtgazone.com | 1h 50m 31s | |
| 1/13/26 | #173: Arena Power Cube Data | Is Arid Mesa better than Black Lotus (no) what cards make reanimator decks tick? What plan B should a Breach / Brain Freeze deck have for more resilience? All that in this weeks special episode on arena power cube. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #173This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | #172: Best draft cards of 2025 | This week time to look at 2025 in retrospective - what cards were the heroes of last year's draft? I use data to highlight some bests in multiple categories. Part to reminisce, part to try and think more about the current designs and player psychology to see if we can get some advice from there. Did you know bonus sheet cards are more likely to be over and underrated? Me neither! Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #172This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | #171: 16Lands Data | Cutting that land is tempting when you build your draft deck. But is it? This time I explore some data on what are the features of a successful 16 land deck, which cards make it tick and which are not pulling their weight.Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #171This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | #170: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Draft | How often did you regret a draft pick after the draft? That lingering feeling you should have made a different choice in a 50:50 decision? Well, hopefully today I will convince you to worry less. We will look at the cost of abandoning the picks and I will make a semi-coherent case that if your card evaluation is OK, you will end up just fine. We are also going to learn why pack 1 picks are more important for finding a lane than for providing playables. We even venture (only for a bit) into constructed world. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #170This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 11/30/25 | #169: Drafting Right Cards for the Right Decks in Avatar: The Last Airbender | 17Lands win rates we look at the most show us how much a card is winning in all the decks it has been put into. And for many cards, this is enough. They are either generically good and play well in most shells, or generically bad and should be avoided. But what about those exceptions?Well, sometimes the generic win rate can be misleading. Some cards with. low win rate perform very well in one specific color pair - you miss on it and you are haemorrhaging those precious win rate percentages. For example, Fire Navy Trebuchet in the last set has middling win rate but does exceptionally well in White-Black decks. In this episode I painstakingly go through all the cards in the set where dat was available and try to add that extra level of granularity to boost your win rates. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #169This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 11/23/25 | #168: Early 17Lands Draft data for Avatar: the Last Airbender | New set is upon us and it feels great! Drafts are fun, mechanics feel awesome, and there is still plenty left to discover. And this is why we are here: to lok at the early data and give you some pointers on what works so far and where to look for new possibilities. We will look at most powerful colors, cards, and what makes each of the 10 color pairs tick. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #168This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | #167: Avatar: the Last Airbender draft deck skeletons with the Skeleton Crew | Join out deck-centric eccentric set review. Instead of reviewing individual cards, we are looking at whole decks for each color pair - how would we build them, which cards are we hopeful for and what synergies will be key in the early days of the format once it hits the Arena. My guests this time are SamP (Sam Pratt): https://bsky.app/profile/sampratt.bsky.socialZachy K (Zach Kagan): https://bsky.app/profile/zakagan.bsky.socialAnd Tresio (Mike Reiners): https://x.com/TresioPing me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #167This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | #166: Draft signals in pick 2 draft | Spider-Man set has not exactly been a crowd pleaser, but that should not distract us from some positive features it had. As far as I am not impressed by its execution, the idea of a pick 2 draft is interesting and I would love to see it implemented again - in a better balanced set. The concept of smaller pod and picking 2 cards has massive implications on the signals sent and received in the draft - and in this episode I do a bit of a refresher on draft signals altogether and dive into some OM1 17Lands data to try and see what was the impact of Spider-Man on how the signals work. If you want to see my feature match from Liverpool + the interview with Martin Juza, here is the link:https://www.youtube.com/live/EMvNSz5nSPE?si=g29U2u3z7wwVI82K&t=20759Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #166This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | #165: Early 17Lands Draft Data for Through the Omenpaths | New set upon us and it is a challenging one. But worth giving it at least a couple of tries and you want to be prepared for that. What colors tick and which are duds? Which cards overperform and which failed to fulfil their promise? And why are there so many spiders in this definitely in-universe set? Find out the answers to at least some of those questions in my lates episode. Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #165This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 9/16/25 | #164: Spider-Man draft deck skeletons with the Skeleton Crew | New set is upon us so it is time for our unique deck-centric, eccentric set review. Smaller set, smaller crew, so this time me, Sam Pratt from the Rough Drafts podcast and Zach Kagan (see below for their details) go through the specifics of Marvel's Spider-Man and look at which cards we expect to do well, which ones we have little trust in and how would we build each of the 5 supported decks. Which cards will matter and define the format? What can flop and what considerations do we need to take into account when starting with SPD. Check my guest's socials:https://linktr.ee/roughdraftshttps://bsky.app/profile/zakagan.bsky.socialPing me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #164SlidesThis podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
| 9/10/25 | #163: Learning card evaluation from the extremes | Today's episode is all about card evaluation. I look at cards from the recent past which were either amazingly good, sneakily good but under-appreciated by the community or traps that looked like they might be good but did not deliver. What vcan we learn from those cards? Are there any common themes? How to recognise a potential trap early or how to pick hidden gems more reliably?Ping me for coaching. Join the Discord, sign up for Patreon, and use this Linktree for everything else! Watch this episode and see the slides: Episode #163This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.You can get the BulkBox if you are in the UK. Remember to use SIERKO10 code for a 10% discount!If you are outside of UK, you can find your local distributor on the BulkBox website | — | ||||||
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